Keyboard and mouse not working after X update

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 20:56:59 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 01:01:22 +0200, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 12:11 AM Polytropon wrote:
> > > What is the correct driver for X for "modesetting", and how
> > > can I easily verify it has been loaded?
> > 
> > It is part of the Xorg I guess. Make sure you are in the video group.
> 
> Verified. The user is also member of the "administrative
> groups" (operator and wheel).
> 
> 
> 
> > Use no config launch startx and it should auto configure.
> 
> Yes, this works. I no longer need (as it seems to be unsupported(
> a configuration file for keyboard language, as this has now become
> a O(n) instead of O(1) operation, bah, per user.
> 
> 
> 
> > Well thing
> > changed a bit and we just need to put some time for that to work no
> > other way ;-)
> 
> I just wish it was documented in a way a simple mind like mine
> could understand. :-)
> 
> So at the moment, I have this (as explained in the documentation):
> 
> In /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> 	drm_load="YES"

 That won't work.

> In /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> 	kld_list="amdgpu"

 This should be enough to have drm.ko loaded as a dependency.

> 
> In the user's ~/.xinitrc:
> 
> 	setxkbmap -rules evdev -layout de
> 
> The following related packages are installed:
> 
> 	drm-kmod-g20190710 
> 	drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20200221
> 	xf86-video-amdgpu-19.1.0_1
> 	libdrm-2.4.99,1
> 
> In /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I still get the misleading messages:
> 
> [    43.096] (II) LoadModule: "ati"
> [    43.098] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati
> [    43.098] (EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
> 
> As I seaid, when the xf86-video-ati package was installed, I
> just got a black screen in X. However, with xf86-video-amdgpu
> installed, there is no indication in the log file that a driver
> named "amdgpu" (or the like) has been loaded. Bit I get the
> message saying
> 
> Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
> 
> Followd by those errors:
> 
> [    43.111] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
> [    43.111] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
> [    43.111] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
> [    43.111] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for scfb
> ...
> [    43.111] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
> 
> And later on, it's still pointing to VESA being used. Strange thing,
> with "glxgears", I now get approx. 260 FPS, which is 5 times as
> much as before.
> 
> No directory /dev/dri does exist.

 If you have no /dev/dri and no /dev/drm it means that the drm modules
wasn't loaded.
 Look in dmesg for errors and also try to "kldload amdgpu" or "kldload
radeonkms" depending on your GPU.

> I have installed the MESA packages (mesa-demos, mesa-libs, and
> mesa-dri), but that's the software renderer. The "driinfo" program
> reports an error, obviously.
> 
> So it still seems that there's something missing for DRI?
> 
> Or is this something to enable somewhere else?
> 
> 
> 
> > BSD still seems to be "the rational island" in this "sand castle
> > world" and I can clearly see that I also need to add my bricks to make
> > it work well thus my focus here :-)
> 
> From all the sand that is blewn over from Linux world, it
> becomes a bit harder to see _which_ solution is the suggested
> one, at least for the moment...
> 
> 
> 
> > > > I
> > > > also use hald and dbus.
> > >
> > > Accepting outdated Linux stuff to make FreeBSD graphics
> > > work again doesn't sound as if it was the right thing to
> > > do... ;-)
> > 
> > Yea, but this is my _work_station_ so my main focus is to get the
> > results in a shorter and shorter time spans.. not always I have lots
> > of time to play and fix things anymore.. the world gone mad :-(
> 
> I have systems running MATE which also have HAL and DBus for
> whatever reason, and this works.
> 
> 
> 
> > > Many many moving parts. :-)
> > 
> > "Change is good" man "root is obsolete" why do we even need those
> > computers ;-) ;-)
> 
> I don't know I'm no good with computering. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
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